Well there we were, driving down to the Canterbury campus of the University of Kent, moving my youngest daughter into Halls to begin her new adventure.

I don't know what it was, whether it was the fact that she was embarking on a honours degree in Art History, which I would have loved to have done myself, or whether it was simply the realisation that time goes so quickly, one minute I was taking her to school, the next I was taking her to university. We then started talking about my route to adulthood after leaving school.